Field notes · April 18, 2025
What we brought back from the spring Brooklyn buying trip.
Three new indie skincare lines, a perfume oil house we've been chasing since 2022, and a salt scrub we genuinely cannot stop sampling.
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Notes from the floor.
Buying trips, merchandising tips, and the occasional letter from the founder. Updated when we have something honest to say.
Operations · March 2, 2025
Why our standard ship window is still 48 hours.
It would be easier to promise five days. Here's why we've held the line on two — and what we changed in the bay last quarter to keep it.
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Merchandising · February 9, 2025
A small skincare wall, done well.
Five rules we share with every new account building a skincare set from twelve linear feet of shelving or less.
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Meet Marrow & Vine, our newest clinical skincare line.
A small Hudson Valley team building peptide treatments for medical aesthetics — and why we picked them up exclusively for the Northeast.
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Refillable amenities, one year in.
What we learned shifting fourteen boutique hotels off single-use amenity bottles — including the parts that didn't work.
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Five years in Portsmouth.
A short note on the anniversary, the team, and what comes next for the catalog.
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